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When his task is accomplished and affairs areprosperous, the people all say: “We have come to be aswe are, naturally and of ourselves."If any one desires to take the Empire in hand and governit, I see that he will not succeed. The Empire is a divineutensil which may not be roughly handled. He whomeddles, mars. He who holds it by force, loses it.Fishes must not be taken from the water: the methods ofgovernment must not be exhibited to the people.Use uprightness in ruling a State; employ stratagems inwaging war; practise non-interference in order to winthe Empire. Now this is how I know what I lay down:--As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied in theEmpire, the people grow poorer and poorer. When thepeople are subjected to overmuch government, the landis thrown into confusion. When the people are skilled inmany cunning arts, strange are the objects of luxury thatappear.The greater the number of laws and enactments, themore thieves and robbers there will be. Therefore theSage says: “So long as I do nothing, the people will workout their own reformation. So long as I love calm, thepeople will right themselves. If only I keep frommeddling, the people will grow rich. If only I am freefrom desire, the people will come naturally back tosimplicity."
If the government is sluggish and tolerant, the peoplewill be honest and free from guile. If the government isprying and meddling, there will be constant infractionof the law. Is the government corrupt? Then uprightnessbecomes rare, and goodness becomes strange. Verily,mankind have been under delusion for many a day!Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. [1]If the Empire is governed according to Tao,disembodied spirits will not manifest supernaturalpowers. It is not that they lack supernatural power, butthey will not use it to hurt mankind. Again, it is not thatthey are unable to hurt mankind, but they see that theSage also does not hurt mankind. If then neither Sagenor spirits work harm, their virtue converges to onebeneficent end.In ancient times those who knew how to practise Tao didnot use it to enlighten the people, but rather to keepthem ignorant. The difficulty of governing the peoplearises from their having too much knowledge.If the people do not fear the majesty of government, areign of terror will ensue.Do not confine them within too narrow bounds; do notmake their lives too weary. For if you do not weary themof life, then they will not grow weary of you.If the people do not fear death, what good is there inusing death as a deterrent? But if the people are brought
Page 5 and 6: LAOZIContentsTao In Its Transcenden
Page 7 and 8: Tao eludes the sense of sight, and
Page 9 and 10: life, and it rejects them not. Its
Page 11 and 12: Heaven's net is vast; though its me
Page 13 and 14: Tao, he endures for ever. Though hi
Page 15 and 16: of agriculture. If Tao does not pre
Page 17 and 18: The skilful philosophers of the old
Page 19 and 20: epose? But let time go on, and the
Page 21 and 22: L Humilityowliness AndLL things in
Page 23 and 24: What makes a kingdom great is its b
Page 25: GovernmentNOT exalting worth keeps
Page 29 and 30: people return to the use of knotted
Page 31 and 32: prizes. When he conquers, he is not
Page 33 and 34: Thirty spokes unite in one nave; th
Page 35 and 36: He who acts, destroys; he who grasp
Page 37 and 38: He who prides himself upon wealth a
Page 39 and 40: The course of things is such that w
Page 41 and 42: Even if a man is bad, how can it be
Page 43 and 44: This is the Way of Heaven, which be
Page 47 and 48: ZHUANGZIContentsThe Doctrine of Rel
Page 49 and 50: going up ninety thousand li in orde
Page 51 and 52: seen the great ocean, you know your
Page 53 and 54: he Identity ofTContraries1.TZu CH'I
Page 55 and 56: we cannot see its form. It has func
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Page 59 and 60: dream they are dreaming; and only w
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Page 65 and 66: prevented him from seeing my pent-u
Page 67 and 68: 4.Books are what the world values a
Page 69 and 70: 6.Lieh Yu K'ou instructed Po Hun Wu
Page 71 and 72: The Hidden Spring1.TAO has its laws
Page 73 and 74: 4.The universe is very beautiful, y
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8.Life has its distinctions; but in
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The potter says: “I can do what I
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Passive Virtue1.YEN HUI [1] went to
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seem to follow the dictates of his
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may protect men's bodies. He has at
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3.“Tell me," said Lao Tzu, “in
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S Externalself-Adaptation To1.YEN H
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2.For travelling by water there is
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him in the administration of the em
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principles, increasing the sum of h
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none of these. Would you like to he
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4.With the truly wise, wisdom is a
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without calculation, not seeking to
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7.The repose of the Sage is not wha
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Random Gleanings1.TAKE no heed of t
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7.Is Confucius a Sage, or is he not
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13.By inaction one can become the c
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17.The men of this world all rejoic
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23.Charity and duty to one's neighb
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28.The Grand Augur, in his ceremoni
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know not how. You are at rest, but
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37.Discard the stimuli of purpose.
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42.When Chu Po Yu reached his sixti
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46.Man has for himself a spacious d
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ersonalPAnecdotes1.CHUANG TZu was f
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“You not being a fish yourself,"
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“We fear," argued the disciples,
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1天瑞Tian RuiHeaven's GiftsThe C
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itself untouched by evolution. Self
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function to teach others and to inf
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from the standpoint of the Absolute
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that belongs to Earth is dense and
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scholar, death the appointed end fo
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life, holds cleverness and capacity
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us by their impact."“But what if
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The third year, I reaped a great ha
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same time which of us is not a thie
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practice of enlightened virtue will
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on high, the people bewailed him fo
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as one, is still not so good as pas
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high favour with the prince of Chin
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can walk through the midst of these
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The Animal TamerTHE KEEPER of Anima
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Gulls in MindTHERE WAS once a man,
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The incident came to the ears of Ma
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Chou of the Yin, Huan of the Lu Sta
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endowed with blood and breath. And
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stranger has carried me away by his
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gratification. The magician, howeve
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freshness. He asked where he had co
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the fact that his own body is an il
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description, and subjected to every
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deer, but wrongly took the dream to
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space of seven days no one knew wha
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4仲尼Zhong NiConfuciusWho is wis
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Then he said to himself: “Confuci
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mind to be occupied with the extern
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“This, however, is doubtless due
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5湯問Tang WenThe Questions ofTan
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Emperor T'ang's Second QuestionT'an
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these mountains, and was vexed in s
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The Change of HeartsKUNG-HU of Lu a
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piece of work, already finished, th
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The loan of the good swordHEI LUAN
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light which it emits. The objects w
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6力命Li MingEffort & DestinyFate
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Doctor knowledgeYANG CHU had a frie
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I must die and leave my kingdom, pa
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But the husbandman has seasons of r
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Meng: “Why then do they not stop
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Hsu-yu and Shan-Chuan, but they did
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the present, and cannot really give
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Chapter 5. False VirtuesYANG CHU sa
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Chapter 7. Duty To The Living And T
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and if it is not permitted to speak
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Chapter 9. The Happy VoluptuariesTS
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sublimity of righteousness and prop
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Tse-Chan in his perplexity found no
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first among his clansmen. What they
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and heard all these things, one wou
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Ch’in-Tse said:“But supposing i
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Chapter 13. The Vanity Of Reputatio
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“Yet reputation cannot bring back
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Chapter 14. Difficulty And Ease Of
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“If anybody cares for one hour's
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Chapter 17. The Four ChimerasYANG C
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each one says: In the world there i
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people pursue fame with such frenzy
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the attributes of straightness and
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“Yes," said Lieh Tzu, “I do."
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Lieh Tzu, hearing of it, said: “I
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and wanted to know the secret of th
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“As you behave to others, so othe
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“In Chou," replied Wên Tzu, “w
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to look at, and neglects those that
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TaintIN THE EAST of China there was
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True KindnessTHE GOOD PEOPLE of Han
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The AxeA MAN, having lost his axe,
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sourcesLAOZIThe Book of Lao Tzutran
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